8/17/2023 0 Comments Good steward of money![]() Proverbs 16:3 (KJV) “Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.” – ( What does the Bible say about God in control?Ĩ. Genesis 2:15 (NLT) “The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.”ħ. Genesis 1:28 (NASB) “God blessed them and God said to them, “ Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Ħ. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”ĥ. Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”Ĥ. 1 Timothy 1:11 “that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.”ģ. 1 Corinthians 9.17 (ESV) “For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.”Ģ. And secondly, that our hearts would be aligned in thanksgiving and acknowledgement that all we have has been provided by the Lord for us to manage well.ġ. In this chapter we gain insight into exactly what the Lord is desiring for us in our stewardship and our worship, the primary lesson being that worship would first and foremost be an act of trust on our part as we give the very best and the first of all we have to the Lord. Cain’s was from his crop, the “fruit of the ground” and Abel’s was from the “firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions”. In Genesis chapter 4 we see the sons of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, bringing a sacrifice from the work of their hands. He was to work, or labor in it, and was to oversee, or keep, it.Īfter the fall is when we first see this management, or stewarding, of God’s creation tied to the worship of God. It was all given to the man to be under his rule, under his management. Nothing that the Garden contained was of the man’s own doing. It is clear from these passages that part of the reason why God created humanity was that humans were to manage, or steward, the things that were given to them. In Genesis 2:15, we see this dominion being fleshed out when God placed the man into the garden He created in order that the man would work in it and keep it. It carries an idea of bringing something chaotic under control. The Hebrew in this context literally means to rule. “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:27 ESV We read in Genesis 1, right after God created the man and the woman, He gave them this charge: ![]() The concept of stewardship begins at the creation of all things. Everything we have is on loan from the Lord, entrusted to us for awhile to us for a while to use in serving him.” John Macarthur Instead you are to please God and bless others by practicing biblical stewardship which is to care for and give of the physical and spiritual resources that God has provided for you.” John Broger “Sins such as envy, jealousy, covetousness, and greed very markedly reveal a focus on self. And it challenges us to give our all to the Lord by serving those we lead with love and humility.” Paul Chappell ![]() It motivates us to seek the Lord’s wisdom and understanding in difficult situations. “The fear of the Lord helps us recognize our accountability to God for the stewardship of leadership. “The world asks, “What does a man own?” Christ asks, “How does he use it?” Andrew Murray “Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” John Wesley
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